Between 1986 and 1990, I attended Island School in Hong Kong - a secondary school first opened by the English Schools Foundation in 1967. This unique institution has provided a world-class education to thousands of foreign and local students, throughout fifty years of rapid growth and cultural change in Hong Kong.

For Island School, 2017 was the end of an era, and the start of an exciting new one. To mark the 50th Anniversary of the school, I decided to make a documentary film, celebrating the first 50 years of the school, and telling the story of the people who call themselves "Islanders".

Post-production on the documentary continues, with the first two segments of the five-part film now complete. Part 1, “The First Ten Years” (55 minutes), covers the school’s inception in 1967 up to 1977, its first home in a former British Military Hospital, before moving to newly constructed buildings in 1974, and features interviews with former teachers and students who taught or studied during those years. Part 2, “The Adolescent Years” (85 minutes), covers 1977 to 1987, and Part 3, “The Boom Years” (100 minutes), covers the decade leading up to the Chinese Handover in 1997. Part 3 will be released in late 2019, with Parts 4 & 5 to follow in early 2020. Go to http://www.cinebrand.com.au/island-school-50th-anniversary to read more and order a copy of the film.